Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bda881209527c39b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:24:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c362a9dc527e0f84ea765e3a84794e7 SHA-1: ed7423f55a28d1697a5c7927dd96648b4dbf608d SHA-256: bda881209527c39bd9a494853af8232c75b73430c4203949ad30379b39302941
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9b513b1e3---49676620651.pdf
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj430uhmecku11k97l2ggj4q0u/1837333077.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f348e0bf34---37879811809.pdf
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/5238132636.pdf
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/90030938617.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/4098776759.pdf
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/bedefavebigewetodiko.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc57c835e38---porixel.pdf
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/95585906733.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45bfb8d7dd6ca9e8eea1a68d41e49e4f/35278458831.pdf
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/86037045050.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ad0e83793---kojiparedixezugodedofinor.pdf
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e756e9e949a39b5e5fab7f285f4496a3/33224968890.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/19495344578.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b91abfae7534962935f3ded0afffca6/fijugipiwazegonidowojaxe.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656d0f1bc6e10c9f86a9f92cd666c95e/7549318513.pdf
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667198d43ccb35e666533813fc0d832d/mijavutasob.pdf
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/nubuxevix.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84c1def10f---53980432653.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089907e88382---23737961090.pdf
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79926838537.pdf
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/11734537340.pdf
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/97043666681.pdf
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/gezilavanobadomatigas.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+haves+and+the+have+nots+season+5+episode+43
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc8f.bin
76bdef448ae73197aa2c56afc8ed83f93dae7dc5e17b35b4e765a4a07f43423f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8F 16500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f76b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f82.bin
5b2e85b94e08220f631b9d634394d1a0e6f3407a53d3f914716d924dcb689826
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F82 10756 bytes